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Consumer Research Project: Meal Preparation Experiment Related to Poultry Washing (Aug 20, 2019; PDF)
FSIS and its research partners conducted meal preparation studies to evaluate consumer food handling behaviors in a test kitchen. This report describes the results of the second iteration of the meal preparation experiment that examined consumers’ washing of poultry when preparing a meal of chicken thighs.

Consumer Research Project: Meal Preparation Experiment Related to Thermometer Use(May 18, 2018; PDF)
FSIS and its research partners conducted meal preparation studies to evaluate consumer food handling behaviors in a test kitchen. This initial report is on the first phase of a multi-year study that also includes focus groups and web surveys. This report describes the results of the first iteration of the meal preparation study that examined consumers’ use of food thermometers when cooking ground turkey patties.